GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1)
NAME
objdump - display information from object files.
SYNOPSIS
objdump [-a|--archive-headers]
[-b bfdname|--target=bfdname]
[-C|--demangle[=style] ]
[-d|--disassemble]
[-D|--disassemble-all]
[-z|--disassemble-zeroes]
[-EB|-EL|--endian={big | little }]
[-f|--file-headers]
[-F|--file-offsets]
[--file-start-context]
[-g|--debugging]
[-e|--debugging-tags]
[-h|--section-headers|--headers]
[-i|--info]
[-j section|--section=section]
[-l|--line-numbers]
[-S|--source]
[-m machine|--architecture=machine]
[-M options|--disassembler-options=options]
[-p|--private-headers]
[-r|--reloc]
[-R|--dynamic-reloc]
[-s|--full-contents]
[-W|--dwarf]
[-G|--stabs]
[-t|--syms]
[-T|--dynamic-syms]
[-x|--all-headers]
[-w|--wide]
[--start-address=address]
[--stop-address=address]
[--prefix-addresses]
[--[no-]show-raw-insn]
[--adjust-vma=offset]
[--special-syms]
[-V|--version]
[-H|--help]
objfile...DESCRIPTION
objdump displays information about one or more object files. The options control what particular information to display. This information is mostly useful to programmers who are working on the compilation tools, as opposed to programmers who just want their program to compile and work. objfile... are the object files to be examined. When you specify archives, objdump shows information on each of thebinutils-2.18.90 Last change: 2008-09-10 1
GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1) member object files. OPTIONS The long and short forms of options, shown here as alternatives, are equivalent. At least one option from thelist -a,-d,-D,-e,-f,-g,-G,-h,-H,-p,-r,-R,-s,-S,-t,-T,-V,-x
must be given.-a
--archive-header
If any of the objfile files are archives, display the archive header information (in a format similar to ls-l). Besides the information you could list with ar tv,
objdump -a shows the object file format of each archive
member.--adjust-vma=offset
When dumping information, first add offset to all the section addresses. This is useful if the section addresses do not correspond to the symbol table, which can happen when putting sections at particular addresses when using a format which can not represent section addresses, such as a.out.-b bfdname
--target=bfdname
Specify that the object-code format for the object files
is bfdname. This option may not be necessary; objdump can automatically recognize many formats. For example,objdump -b oasys -m vax -h fu.o
displays summary information from the section headers(-h) of fu.o, which is explicitly identified (-m) as a
VAX object file in the format produced by Oasys compilers. You can list the formats available with the-i option.
-C
--demangle[=style]
Decode (demangle) low-level symbol names into user-level
names. Besides removing any initial underscore prepended by the system, this makes C++ function names readable. Different compilers have different mangling styles. The optional demangling style argument can be used to choose an appropriate demangling style for your compiler.-g
--debugging
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GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1) Display debugging information. This attempts to parse STABS and IEEE debugging format information stored in the file and print it out using a C like syntax. If neither of these formats are found this option fallsback on the -W option to print any DWARF information in
the file.-e
--debugging-tags
Like -g, but the information is generated in a format
compatible with ctags tool.-d
--disassemble
Display the assembler mnemonics for the machine instructions from objfile. This option only disassembles those sections which are expected to contain instructions.-D
--disassemble-all
Like -d, but disassemble the contents of all sections,
not just those expected to contain instructions.--prefix-addresses
When disassembling, print the complete address on each line. This is the older disassembly format.-EB
-EL
--endian={big|little}
Specify the endianness of the object files. This only affects disassembly. This can be useful when disassembling a file format which does not describeendianness information, such as S-records.
-f
--file-headers
Display summary information from the overall header of each of the objfile files.-F
--file-offsets
When disassembling sections, whenever a symbol is displayed, also display the file offset of the region of data that is about to be dumped. If zeroes are being skipped, then when disassembly resumes, tell the user how many zeroes were skipped and the file offset of the location from where the disassembly resumes. When dumping sections, display the file offset of the location from where the dump starts.binutils-2.18.90 Last change: 2008-09-10 3
GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1)--file-start-context
Specify that when displaying interlisted sourcecode/disassembly (assumes -S) from a file that has not
yet been displayed, extend the context to the start of the file.-h
--section-headers
--headers
Display summary information from the section headers of the object file. File segments may be relocated to nonstandard addresses,for example by using the -Ttext, -Tdata, or -Tbss
options to ld. However, some object file formats, such as a.out, do not store the starting address of the file segments. In those situations, although ld relocatesthe sections correctly, using objdump -h to list the
file section headers cannot show the correct addresses. Instead, it shows the usual addresses, which are implicit for the target.-H
--help
Print a summary of the options to objdump and exit.-i
--info
Display a list showing all architectures and objectformats available for specification with -b or -m.
-j name
--section=name
Display information only for section name.-l
--line-numbers
Label the display (using debugging information) with the filename and source line numbers corresponding to theobject code or relocs shown. Only useful with -d, -D,
or -r.
-m machine
--architecture=machine
Specify the architecture to use when disassembling object files. This can be useful when disassembling object files which do not describe architectureinformation, such as S-records. You can list the
available architectures with the -i option.
-M options
--disassembler-options=options
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GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1) Pass target specific information to the disassembler. Only supported on some targets. If it is necessary to specify more than one disassembler option then multiple-M options can be used or can be placed together into a
comma separated list. If the target is an ARM architecture then this switch can be used to select which register name set is usedduring disassembler. Specifying -M reg-names-std (the
default) will select the register names as used in ARM's instruction set documentation, but with register 13 called 'sp', register 14 called 'lr' and register 15called 'pc'. Specifying -M reg-names-apcs will select
the name set used by the ARM Procedure Call Standard,whilst specifying -M reg-names-raw will just use r
followed by the register number. There are also two variants on the APCS register namingscheme enabled by -M reg-names-atpcs and -M reg-names-
special-atpcs which use the ARM/Thumb Procedure Call
Standard naming conventions. (Either with the normal register names or the special register names). This option can also be used for ARM architectures to force the disassembler to interpret all instructions as Thumb instructions by using the switch--disassembler-options=force-thumb. This can be useful
when attempting to disassemble thumb code produced by other compilers. For the x86, some of the options duplicate functions ofthe -m switch, but allow finer grained control.
Multiple selections from the following may be specifiedas a comma separated string. x86-64, i386 and i8086
select disassembly for the given architecture. intel and att select between intel syntax mode and AT&T syntaxmode. intel-mnemonic and att-mnemonic select between
intel mnemonic mode and AT&T mnemonic mode. intel-
mnemonic implies intel and att-mnemonic implies att.
addr64, addr32, addr16, data32 and data16 specify the default address size and operand size. These fouroptions will be overridden if x86-64, i386 or i8086
appear later in the option string. Lastly, suffix, when in AT&T mode, instructs the disassembler to print a mnemonic suffix even when the suffix could be inferred by the operands. For PPC, booke, booke32 and booke64 select disassembly of BookE instructions. 32 and 64 select PowerPC and PowerPC64 disassembly, respectively. e300 selects disassembly for the e300 family. 440 selects disassembly for the PowerPC 440. ppcps selectsbinutils-2.18.90 Last change: 2008-09-10 5
GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1) disassembly for the paired single instructions of the PPC750CL. For MIPS, this option controls the printing of instruction mnemonic names and register names in disassembled instructions. Multiple selections from the following may be specified as a comma separated string, and invalid options are ignored:"no-aliases"
Print the 'raw' instruction mnemonic instead of some pseudo instruction mnemonic. I.e., print 'daddu' or 'or' instead of 'move', 'sll' instead of 'nop', etc."gpr-names=ABI"
Print GPR (general-purpose register) names as
appropriate for the specified ABI. By default, GPR names are selected according to the ABI of the binary being disassembled."fpr-names=ABI"
Print FPR (floating-point register) names as
appropriate for the specified ABI. By default, FPR numbers are printed rather than names."cp0-names=ARCH"
Print CP0 (system control coprocessor; coprocessor 0) register names as appropriate for the CPU or architecture specified by ARCH. By default, CP0 register names are selected according to the architecture and CPU of the binary being disassembled."hwr-names=ARCH"
Print HWR (hardware register, used by the "rdhwr" instruction) names as appropriate for the CPU or architecture specified by ARCH. By default, HWR names are selected according to the architecture and CPU of the binary being disassembled."reg-names=ABI"
Print GPR and FPR names as appropriate for the selected ABI."reg-names=ARCH"
Print CPU-specific register names (CP0 register and
HWR names) as appropriate for the selected CPU or architecture. For any of the options listed above, ABI or ARCH may be specified as numeric to have numbers printed rather than names, for the selected types of registers. You canbinutils-2.18.90 Last change: 2008-09-10 6
GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1) list the available values of ABI and ARCH using the--help option.
For VAX, you can specify function entry addresses with-M entry:0xf00ba. You can use this multiple times to
properly disassemble VAX binary files that don't contain symbol tables (like ROM dumps). In these cases, the function entry mask would otherwise be decoded as VAX instructions, which would probably lead the rest of the function being wrongly disassembled.-p
--private-headers
Print information that is specific to the object file format. The exact information printed depends upon the object file format. For some object file formats, no additional information is printed.-r
--reloc
Print the relocation entries of the file. If used with-d or -D, the relocations are printed interspersed with
the disassembly.-R
--dynamic-reloc
Print the dynamic relocation entries of the file. This is only meaningful for dynamic objects, such as certain types of shared libraries.-s
--full-contents
Display the full contents of any sections requested. Bydefault all non-empty sections are displayed.
-S
--source
Display source code intermixed with disassembly, ifpossible. Implies -d.
--show-raw-insn
When disassembling instructions, print the instruction in hex as well as in symbolic form. This is the defaultexcept when --prefix-addresses is used.
--no-show-raw-insn
When disassembling instructions, do not print the instruction bytes. This is the default when--prefix-addresses is used.
-W
--dwarf
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GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1) Displays the contents of the DWARF debug sections in the file, if any are present.-G
--stabs
Display the full contents of any sections requested. Display the contents of the .stab and .stab.index and .stab.excl sections from an ELF file. This is only useful on systems (such as Solaris 2.0) in which ".stab"debugging symbol-table entries are carried in an ELF
section. In most other file formats, debugging symbol-
table entries are interleaved with linkage symbols, andare visible in the --syms output.
--start-address=address
Start displaying data at the specified address. Thisaffects the output of the -d, -r and -s options.
--stop-address=address
Stop displaying data at the specified address. Thisaffects the output of the -d, -r and -s options.
-t
--syms
Print the symbol table entries of the file. This is similar to the information provided by the nm program, although the display format is different. The format of the output depends upon the format of the file being dumped, but there are two main types. One looks like this: [ 4](sec 3)(fl 0x00)(ty 0)(scl 3) (nx 1) 0x00000000 .bss [ 6](sec 1)(fl 0x00)(ty 0)(scl 2) (nx 0) 0x00000000 fred where the number inside the square brackets is the number of the entry in the symbol table, the sec number is the section number, the fl value are the symbol's flag bits, the ty number is the symbol's type, the scl number is the symbol's storage class and the nx value is the number of auxilary entries associated with the symbol. The last two fields are the symbol's value and its name. The other common output format, usually seen with ELF based files, looks like this: 00000000 l d .bss 00000000 .bss 00000000 g .text 00000000 fred Here the first number is the symbol's value (sometimes refered to as its address). The next field is actually a set of characters and spaces indicating the flag bitsbinutils-2.18.90 Last change: 2008-09-10 8
GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1) that are set on the symbol. These characters are described below. Next is the section with which the symbol is associated or *ABS* if the section is absolute (ie not connected with any section), or *UND* if the section is referenced in the file being dumped, but not defined there. After the section name comes another field, a number, which for common symbols is the alignment and for other symbol is the size. Finally the symbol's name is displayed. The flag characters are divided into 7 groups as follows: "l" "g" "!" The symbol is local (l), global (g), neither (a space) or both (!). A symbol can be neither local or global for a variety of reasons, e.g., because it is used for debugging, but it is probably an indication of a bug if it is ever both local and global. "w" The symbol is weak (w) or strong (a space). "C" The symbol denotes a constructor (C) or an ordinary symbol (a space). "W" The symbol is a warning (W) or a normal symbol (a space). A warning symbol's name is a message to be displayed if the symbol following the warning symbol is ever referenced. "I" The symbol is an indirect reference to another symbol (I) or a normal symbol (a space). "d" "D" The symbol is a debugging symbol (d) or a dynamic symbol (D) or a normal symbol (a space). "F" "f" "O" The symbol is the name of a function (F) or a file (f) or an object (O) or just a normal symbol (a space).-T
--dynamic-syms
Print the dynamic symbol table entries of the file. This is only meaningful for dynamic objects, such as certain types of shared libraries. This is similar tobinutils-2.18.90 Last change: 2008-09-10 9
GNU Development Tools OBJDUMP(1) the information provided by the nm program when giventhe -D (--dynamic) option.
--special-syms
When displaying symbols include those which the target considers to be special in some way and which would not normally be of interest to the user.-V
--version
Print the version number of objdump and exit.-x
--all-headers
Display all available header information, including thesymbol table and relocation entries. Using -x is
equivalent to specifying all of -a -f -h -p -r -t.
-w
--wide
Format some lines for output devices that have more than 80 columns. Also do not truncate symbol names when they are displayed.-z
--disassemble-zeroes
Normally the disassembly output will skip blocks of zeroes. This option directs the disassembler to disassemble those blocks, just like any other data. @fileRead command-line options from file. The options read
are inserted in place of the original @file option. If file does not exist, or cannot be read, then the option will be treated literally, and not removed. Options in file are separated by whitespace. A whitespace character may be included in an option by surrounding the entire option in either single or double quotes. Any character (including a backslash) may be included by prefixing the character to be included with a backslash. The file may itself contain additional @file options; any such options will be processed recursively.SEE ALSO
nm(1), readelf(1), and the Info entries for binutils. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.binutils-2.18.90 Last change: 2008-09-10 10
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